Prosperity

Eric Butterworth was a Unity minister in New York City. He wrote a great book called Spiritual Economics that helped me integrate my spiritual and material ambitions. I HIGHLY recommend it.

When I worked with Steve Chandler, one of the themes of our work together was “creating wealth through profound service.”

Continuing our abundance theme, let’s talk about WHY we may be trying to make money and create wealth.

Continuing our theme of what science says about money, let’s turn to one of our favorite well-being scientists: Sonja Lyubomirsky.

In Creating Affluence, Deepak Chopra tells a great story about two Goddesses involved in creating abundance in our lives.

In our last +1, we talked about setting your “work-down” alarm so you don’t need to set a “wake-up” alarm. (For what time did you set YOUR alarm? :)

In our last +1, we talked about Ferrari-Optimizing Pit Stops and celebrated the people in OUR crews while committing to showing up as powerfully as we can for all the people whose crews we’re blessed to be in.

Way back in the day, we talked about Rick Snyder’s wisdom on The Science of Hope.

Imagine for a moment (if you’re open to it, of course) that someone just put a gun to your head and said: “YOUR MONEY OR YOUR LIFE!!!”

In our last +1, we briefly talked about Vicki Robin and her bestselling classic Your Money or Your Life.

In our last couple +1s, we’ve had some fun (at least I have!) starting to rub some sticks together for our bonFIRE.

In our last few +1s, we’ve been chatting about the FIRE movement and (if you’ve felt so inspired!), we’ve started gathering some (little sticks) for our bonFIRE.

Continuing our series on how to build a bonFIRE 🔥, Today we’re going to chat about The Big 3 of creating Financial Independence (and Interdependence) as we win the ultimate game of life, Realizing Eudaimonia.

Not too long ago, we started giving Emerson $10 every week.

In our last +1, we talked about how I’m attempting to make the idea of saving and investing money much cooler than constantly spending money.

In our last couple +1s, we took a quick look at some of my recent attempts to cool-ify and kid-ify the idea that delaying gratification via saving/investing money is awesome. 🤓

In our last +1, we revisited our Spiritual Economics dictionary to redefine some key terms. Specifically: Affluence + Security + Prosperity.

Not too long ago we talked about the fact that the word prosperity literally means “to go forward with hope.”

In our last +1, we put on our Optimizing nerd glasses ( 🤓 !!!) and explored the etymological (and psychological) opposites: prosper and despair.

The other day we wrapped up the Fundamentals module of the Mastery Series phase of our Heroic Coach program. (That was a mouthful, wasn’t it?) (Hah.)

Continuing our chat about How to Prosper, let’s talk about another facet of our session on the subject with our Mastery-Coaches.

In our last +1, we took a very quick, high-level look at the growing recognition of the fact that businesses can (and I’d say must!) be used as a force for good.

In our last couple +1s, we opened up The Economist and chatted about the rise of purpose-driven businesses in general and Public Benefit Corporations in particular.

In our last few +1s, we took a very quick, high-level look at the growing recognition of the fact that businesses can (and I’d say must!) be used as a force for good.

In our last +1, we talked about the Big 2 Virtues.

In our last couple +1s, we talked about the science of gratitude and explored some tips on Robert Emmons’ #1 practice: Gratitude Journaling.

In our last +1, we continued our exploration of the science of gratitude by practicing the grateful art of shifting from taking things “for granted” to seeing all the gifts “AS GRANTED” to us.

Let’s continue our exploration of the science of gratitude for another moment (or three).

Gratitude.

This morning I started my Deep Work by reviewing my notes from my recent Coaching call with my Yoda. Among other things, we were talking about life and death.